Broadband A ‘Necessity,’ Obama Says
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January 15, 2015From Npr.com
President Obama is expected to lay out plans today intended to make it easier for cities, towns and rural communities to offer their citizens fast and cheap broadband Internet.
The move would ask the Federal Communications Commission to address state laws that prevent cities from building their own municipal Internet services. But it’s likely to anger major cable and Internet companies.
Obama announced his plans in Cedar Falls, Iowa, which is home to a 1 GB broadband network — 100 times faster than the national average.
“Today, high-speed broadband is not a luxury,” he said at Cedar Falls Utilities. “It’s a necessity.”
He said greater access to faster Internet will make the U.S. more competitive globally.
“There are real-world consequences to this, and it makes us less economically competitive,” the president said in a video released before his remarks today.
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